suspicious - Story 145776 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Congratulations, Cassandra," the lawyer intoned, handing my sister the deed to a sprawling estate. I, on the other hand, was given a small, unassuming envelope. Inside, I found a key and a brief note that simply read, "Find the truth." My gut clenched. Cassandra squealed with delight, already discussing her plans for the property. I felt a tremor run through me.

I tried to act pleased for her, forcing a smile as I congratulated her. The lawyer, his expression carefully neutral, offered a quick explanation of the inheritance, but his words felt irrelevant. I hardly heard them.

Later, I clutched the key, my fingers tracing its cold, metallic surface. The note had me thinking of my father, and how he had gone to ground after a certain event. I knew he hid things, but this felt different. I felt a sudden urge to get away from everything and everyone, to find the truth, even if it led me down a path I couldn't predict.

Emotion: suspicious

Cluster: Suspicion / Vigilance

PC1 (Valence): -0.82 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 0.82

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion suspicious. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 suspicious stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the suspicious emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the suspicious vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`🤔`	0.420
`🤔`	0.415
`🧐`	0.362
`疑`	0.352
`suspicious`	0.352

Suppressed:

`and`	-0.307
`alleviate`	-0.301
`ได้รับการ`	-0.298
`allevi`	-0.285
`mouthful`	-0.284